whitespace.el's permanent-locals

whitespace.el's permanent-locals

[martin rudalics]

whitespace.el has these lines:

     105:(put 'whitespace-mode 'permanent-local nil)
     110:(put 'whitespace-mode-line 'permanent-local nil)
     115:(put 'whitespace-check-buffer-leading 'permanent-local nil)
     120:(put 'whitespace-check-buffer-trailing 'permanent-local nil)
     125:(put 'whitespace-check-buffer-indent 'permanent-local nil)
     130:(put 'whitespace-check-buffer-spacetab 'permanent-local nil)
     135:(put 'whitespace-check-buffer-ateol 'permanent-local nil)
     140:(put 'whitespace-highlighted-space 'permanent-local nil)

I'd remove them.

Re: whitespace.el's permanent-locals

[Miles Bader]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
> whitespace.el has these lines:
>     105:(put 'whitespace-mode 'permanent-local nil)
...
> I'd remove them.

I'm inclined to agree, but ... any idea why they were put there in the
first place?

-Miles
-- 
Next to fried food, the South has suffered most from oratory.
  			-- Walter Hines Page

Re: whitespace.el's permanent-locals

[martin rudalics]

 > I'm inclined to agree, but ... any idea why they were put there in the
 > first place?

Putting a nil value into a symbol's property list makes sense iff I want
to keep a record that at some time a value was put there but is no more
needed.  Well, maybe also because I'm too lazy to remove an association.
But whitespace.el never puts anything but nil there, does that only when
it's loaded, and nowhere uses `plist-member'.